COLLEGE SPORTS: Princeton women make quick work of Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The winter storm that blew through the Northeast could only delay the Princeton women’s basketball team.

Unfortunately for Yale, that meant Sunday’s game still had to be played even if it was a day later than originally scheduled.

The Tigers opened the contest on a 20-0 run and nearly hung 100 on the Bulldogs, eventually settling for a 99-53 victory and a 5-0 start to Ivy play.

The 99 points are a school record.

Niveen Rasheed finished with a career-high 29 points and Kristen Helmstetter added 18 for Princeton, which improved to 14-5 overall.

The Tigers have won 29 straight conference games.

They began the weekend with a 68-37 victory over Brown in a game that was also moved from Friday to Saturday night because of the storm.

Meg Bowen led the way in the win over the Bears with 12 points.

MEN’S LACROSSERutgers 15, Manhattan 6

PISCATAWAY — Nick DePalora scored five goals, while Niick Kilkowski and Steve DiGiovanni added two each and the Scarlet Knights got their season off to a winning start in a game delayed one day by the winter storm that blasted the Northeast.

Rutgers (1-0) got off to a fast start, taking a 3-0 lead after one and a 6-1 advantage into intermission.

Tyler Jarvis tallied twice for the Jaspers (0-1).

WOMEN’S LACROSSERutgers 15, Manhattan 5

PISCATAWAY — Stephanie Anderson and Katrina Martinelli each netted five times, leading the Scarlet Knights (1-0) to a season-opening victory over the Jaspers (0-1).

Martinelli and Anderson quickly gave Rutgers a 2-0 lead as it sprinted out to a 5-0 advantage in the first 13 minutes.

SOFTBALLRider 3, Cleveland State 2

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Dana Sensi, the former Allentown High standout, went 3-for-4 as the Broncs scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to take the first game of a doubleheader at the Hampton Inn Pirate Classic hosted by East Carolina.

Rider was gifted the tieing and winning run when the Vikings’ catcher dropped the ball on a throw to the plate, allowing two runners to score.